Travel wholesale broker Tourico Holidays says the US hotel market is still showing steady growth despite a multitude of concerns about inbound travel to the US.
The Orlando based firm said bookings for US hotels were up 8% last year overall, with bookings this year up 6.5%.
Unsurprisingly, China is the fastest growing source market with 67.5% more bookings year-on-year so far in 2017.
"There was some concern that current issues, such as a travel ban and seemingly tighter immigration policies, would negatively affect the U.S. hotel industry, but the market appears to be even more resilient than even we initially predicted," said Matias Elisavetsky, executive vice president of global product development for Tourico Holidays.
"It’s extremely encouraging to see hotel traffic continue to grow – especially from key source markets like China, Canada, Brazil and the UAE."
The UAE is up 60% so far and the Brazil market is outpacing last year by 23.5%.
Tourico Holidays is exhibiting its service offerings, including hotels, cruises, activities and transfers, car rentals and vacation homes at iPW 2017 in Washington DC from June 3 to the 7.
